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Re: ' and \ characters in passwords

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Andrus Moor wrote:
> I found that \ characters needs not to be quoted in password strings
> 
> create role test1 password '\'
> 
> is OK.

Not sure what client you are using but in psql this fails to find the
ending quote, as it should.

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> I havent found any mention of this behaviour in docs.
> Where this is documented ?
> 
> 
> I created  role
> 
> create role test2 password ''''
> 
> Trying to login using password ' causes error from my ODBC client:
> 
> Connectivity error: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "test2"
> 
> ODBC and postgres logs do not show anything about this issue. How can I find
> which is wrong ?
> 
> Is
> 
> create role test2 password ''''
> 
> legal way to set password to  '  character ?
> 
> Andrus. 
> 
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